Building Bridges - Characters How can you tell what story characters are like?
Authors introduce their characters by giving clues to help readers figure out what a character is like.
When you meet new people, you use clues such as how they look, what they do;, and what they say to figure out what they are like, When you read a story you can use similar clues to figure out what the characters are like.
Look at the Text:
Mama Lil and I had been butting heads ever since I could remember. and the older I got, the more at odds we were. A description tells what the characters look like.
She thought I weighed too much and dressed badly. I thought she smoked too much and overdid it with her fake gold chains. Time after time, she'd asked me, "How you ever gonna land a decent man with them chunky arms and those T-shirts that you put you navel on parade? No self respecting seventeen-year old should be letting it all hang out like that."
Types of Clues
Authors:
•describe what the character looks like
•tell what the character does
•show what the character says and thinks.
Dialogue is what the character says. Dialogue begins and ends with quotation marks.
Dialect includes special expressions used by people in a certain group or from a certain area.
Building Bridges - Characters
How can you tell what story characters are like?
Authors introduce their characters by giving clues to help readers figure out what a character is like.
When you meet new people, you use clues such as how they look, what they do;, and what they say to figure out what they are like, When you read a story you can use similar clues to figure out what the characters are like.
Look at the Text:
Mama Lil and I had been butting heads ever since I could remember. and the older I got, the more at odds we were.
A description tells what the characters look like.
She thought I weighed too much and dressed badly. I thought she smoked too much and overdid it with her fake gold chains. Time after time, she'd asked me, "How you ever gonna land a decent man with them chunky arms and those T-shirts that you put you navel on parade? No self respecting seventeen-year old should be letting it all hang out like that."
Types of Clues
Authors:
•describe what the character looks like
•tell what the character does
•show what the character says and thinks.
Dialogue is what the character says. Dialogue begins and ends with quotation marks.
Dialect includes special expressions used by people in a certain group or from a certain area.